For the past years Avi Farag, the director of the Community Center in the Neot Shaked neighborhood of Netanya, has been arranging a Seder for those who have nowhere else to go for one reason or another. These include lone soldiers, single parents and financially stressed families as well as some physically disabled persons.

Each year Avi has the task of finding sponsors for this event and has to scrounge around to find donors. This entails a lot of hard work and with the bad financial situation in the world he was not sure if he could continue his tradition.

You can just imagine his joy when I told him that I had been approached by someone who wanted to sponsor the whole evening - and all this anonymously! He could not believe that this was possible.

To correlate everything the donation was made through ESRA.

Over 200 people attended the Seder which was so successful that it went on till the early hours of the morning. Forty people slept over and food was supplied to them for the whole of the next day as well.

White kippot were given to each male and there was a Haggada at each place. The full Seder meal was served and the Seder was lead by a rabbi from Netanya. The hall looked amazing, as you can see from the photo. A noteworthy part of the evening was the intermingling of people from different backgrounds and countries all enjoying the Seder together. This was the true meaning of the freedom which Pesach symbolizes.

 

 

 

 

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Rika Meyerowitz was born in Ficksburg, Orange Free State, South Africa. She was educated at Eunice in Bloemfontein and then at the Teacher’s Training College in Johannesburg. She taught at Ki...
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